The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 83
The wife was a good wife enough, but her mind was all on her family and her farm, and she hardly ever went to her knees without falling asleep, and she thought the time spent in the chapel was twice as long as it need be.
Who acts: wife, mind, time · What happens: be, go, fall, think, spend, need · To what, where: good wife, family, knees, time, chapel
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, mind, time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wife | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 wife | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 family | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 family | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mind | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 family | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 family | cop |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 family | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 family | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 family | nmod:poss |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 farm | cc |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 farm | nmod:poss |
| 19 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 family | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 23 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 went | advmod |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wife | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 knees | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 knees | nmod:poss |
| 28 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 went | obl |
| 29 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 30 falling | mark |
| 30 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 went | advcl |
| 31 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 falling | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 thought | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 thought | cc |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 thought | nsubj |
| 35 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 went | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 time | det |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 long | nsubj |
| 38 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 time | acl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 chapel | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 chapel | det |
| 41 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 spent | obl |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 long | cop |
| 43 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 45 long | advmod |
| 44 | as | as | ADV | _ | 45 long | advmod |
| 45 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 thought | advmod |
| 46 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 48 need | mark |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 need | nsubj |
| 48 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 long | advcl |
| 49 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 need | xcomp |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the wife | a good wife but wife's family and wife's farm | enough property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | wife's mind | wife's family and wife's farm | all property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | past | wife | wife's knees | ever | hardly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to knee=Initial_Location | ||
| 4 | fall | gerund | wife not said here | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | wife | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | spend | participle | the time not said here | the chapel | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | past | the time | long, twice property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | need | present | mind | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 9 | be not said to happen | infinitive | mind not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | mind | wife | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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